bastards...

they're playing with jackhammers outside in the construction sites...

Happy Loving Day!

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Happy Loving Day:

I didn't know about this project until I read about it on Pam's House Blend, but I'm all for it: Happy Loving Day. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v Virginia, the landmark decision that overturned state laws against interracial marriage. It was a rare unanimous ruling on what was, at the time, still a very hot social issue. There is going to be a conference in Chicago next weekend on the case. I am still waiting for a conservative originalist to either defend the decision on originalist grounds (without completely contradicting their arguments against similar rulings in other case) or tell us why it was wrongly decided. No one has ever accepted that challenge.

company summer picnic's promotions making me think too hard...

They're doing "hoedown by the watering hole", with blurbs like "t-shirt and flip-flop day" and/or "feel free to wear western themed shirts and cowboy hats!"

They are SO asking me to show up goth to this, aren't they?

well, I did just wash my beatnik outfit from the MSFB this weekend...

you can't win...

so it finally gets quiet outside and now the A/C is busted.

i may be working from home soon...